The East India Company: a history

By: Gardner, BrianMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York Barnes & Noble books 1971Description: 319 pISBN: 9780880295307Subject(s): India | East India companyDDC classification: 954.031 Summary: There has never been an enterprise like the East India Company. It was a government owned by businessmen. It ruled over nearly one-fifth of the world's population; possessed its own army and navy, its own civil service, its own church, became the most powerful military force in Asia, and had a revenue greater than that of Britain.
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There has never been an enterprise like the East India Company. It was a government owned by businessmen. It ruled over nearly one-fifth of the world's population; possessed its own army and navy, its own civil service, its own church, became the most powerful military force in Asia, and had a revenue greater than that of Britain.

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